I'm not sure why Manning gets total benefit of the doubt here with these "he sounded totally believable."
In the end that may be true and innocent until proven guilty etc. etc. but this guy isn't exactly a paragon of honesty and integrity. Remember the whole
trainer episode at Tennessee? In a dick move he voided the settlement and buried the trainer in his book causing her to get fired.
The guy is an ass and knows how to manipulate the narrative and the media.
I don't really give a shit about whether he did or didn't but if hes full of shit and AJZ has the balls to back up their journalists (if indeed they did their job) i will hardly shed a tear for this asshole or for the NFL that will be twisting itself into knots reconciling this crisis with the one they manufactured in the post-season last year.